Australia Fly Guide
Catchment · Carpentaria Coast

Towns River catchment

12 named waters 237 km mapped 7 lakes and impoundments

The drainage, top to bottom

5 streams

Mainstem first, tributaries nested the way the water actually joins. Waters with fish records have them counted; a quiet entry just hasn't had fish logged on it.

  • Towns River68.1 km
  • Yumanji Creek (Little Towns River)57.5 km
  • Childer Creek59.7 km
  • Magaranyi River47.9 km
  • Nayarnpi Creek3.4 km

Lakes and impoundments

7 still waters
  • Ngaldja Swamp10.957 km²
  • Yulupu Swamp2.605 km²
  • Gulabarnji Swamp2.146 km²
  • Wabarra Lake2.035 km²
  • Nawamalayu (Wunawu) Swamp1.221 km²
  • Nawarlbur Swamp0.258 km²
  • Nawarlbur Waterhole0.18 km²

Catchment boundaries, stream network and lengths: Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric), Bureau of Meteorology, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Fish records: Atlas of Living Australia occurrence records, joined to each water's mapped geometry.